Expert Analysis

Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: May Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four recent rulings from c... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Tips As EEOC Prioritizes Hiring Bias

Two recent cases brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reflect its increased interest in rec... (more story)

Mindful Severance Clause Tips Before NLRB Rethinks Limits

The National Labor Relations Board's recent decision in Prime Communications hinted that it may reconsider the leg... (more story)

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Wimbledon, French Open Beat Tennis Group's Access Claim

A federal judge in Manhattan declined Thursday to order the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments to grant access to representatives from a players group, after the group claimed its representatives are... (more story)

House Likely To Vote On Bill Expediting First Union Contracts

The U.S. House of Representatives may soon consider a measure that would set deadlines for employers to reach union contracts after a push to force a vote secured majority support.

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NLRB Member Questions Dues Repayment In Kroger Case

Kroger's Texas unit must compensate a United Food & Commercial Workers local for the dues that it failed to collect from a group of union-represented employees in the South between 2020 and 2022, the National ... (more story)

11th Circ. Appears Doubtful Of Union Members' Bias Claims

An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared puzzled Thursday by Black union pipe fitters' claims that they were passed over for work assignments in favor of white counterparts, expressing confusion about what legal fra... (more story)

UPS, Union Get Initial OK For $87K Pay Deduction Deal

A New York federal judge has given an initial green light to a settlement between United Parcel Service and Teamsters Local 804 members who accused the shipping giant of unlawfully deducting hundreds of dollar... (more story)

NLRB Will Rethink Immigration Atty Bargaining Unit

A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recogn... (more story)

Justices Back IAM Pension Fund In Withdrawal Liability Battle

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that multiemployer pension plan actuaries can retroactively change assumptions underlying their withdrawal liability calculations, rejecting employers' argument for time r... (more story)

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EEOC Disability Bias Suit Threadbare, Retailer Tells 10th Circ.

An appliance retailer called on the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday to preserve its win in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a fired sales associate, argu... (more story)

Hawaiian Airlines Beats Ex-Workers' Vaccine Bias Suit

Hawaiian Airlines defeated a religious bias lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to excuse several employees from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as a federal judge ruled the company had shown that granting th... (more story)

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EEOC Gets Access To American Airlines' Software In ADA Suit

A Texas federal judge allowed the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Thursday to inspect American Airlines software in a suit claiming the company fired a blind employee who asked to use a screen rea... (more story)

Flores Says NFL Retaliated After Filing Discrimination Suit

Former NFL head coach Brian Flores has told a New York federal court that the league and Commissioner Roger Goodell are using its arbitration process as a means to retaliate against him for suing the league fo... (more story)

Transgender Police Employee Sues Colo. City, Claims Bias

A transgender police community specialist has accused the Boulder Police Department of subjecting him to years of deadnaming, misgendering and bathroom surveillance after he began transitioning, and retaliatin... (more story)

Worker Fired Over Kirk Meme Lands $485K From Fla. Agency

A Florida wildlife agency will pay a former employee $485,000 to resolve her suit claiming it violated her free speech rights by firing her for sharing a meme on social media satirizing the killing of conserva... (more story)

Bad AI Citation Sanction Slashed Amid 7th Circ. Guidance

An Indiana federal judge Wednesday rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an attorney be sanctioned $7,500 for including faulty, artificial intelligence-generated legal citations in a discovery brie... (more story)

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Audit Flags Connecticut Agency's Wage Complaint Backlog

The backlog of complaints about potential labor law violations received by Connecticut's Department of Labor grew from 843 to 980 between May 2023 and July 2024, said a report released Thursday from state gove... (more story)

Logistics Co. Escapes OT Suit After Sole Plaintiff Withdraws

A logistics company defeated a proposed collective action alleging it failed to pay minimum wage and overtime after the suit's only named plaintiff withdrew for personal reasons, leaving the federal court with... (more story)

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Newsom Order Eyes Labor Protections Amid AI Growth

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued what his office called a "first-in-the-nation" executive order aiming to shore up state labor policies in an effort to prepare workers and businesses in the even... (more story)

Avis To Pay $1.8M To End Managers' Overtime Suit

Car rental company Avis agreed to pay $1.79 million to settle a collective action claiming it misclassified operations managers as overtime-exempt and failed to pay them for hours worked over 40 in a week, acc... (more story)

NCAA's Maze Of Eligibility Rules Is Athletes' Latest Target

A deluge of litigation targeting the NCAA's eligibility bylaws for allegedly limiting athletes' compensation has resulted in conflicting rulings from different courts, teeing up the possibility of a U.S. Supre... (more story)

Va. Will Require Employers To Provide Paid Sick Leave

Workers in Virginia will soon be entitled to paid sick leave after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Wednesday that requires employers to provide five days of paid time off for employees who get sick or ha... (more story)

Title Insurer Settles IT Workers' OT Misclassification Suit

A title insurance company agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging it improperly classified systems administrators as exempt from overtime pay and fired a worker who raised concerns about the practice, according to... (more story)